Russia confirms arrest after General Kirillov’s murder

Explosion in Moscow

Russia confirms arrest after General Kirillov’s murder

A general is killed in the middle of Moscow – presumably on behalf of Ukraine. A day later, Russian intelligence presented an almost complete explanation.

After the fatal bomb attack on Russian General Igor Kirillov, the Russian domestic secret service FSB says it has arrested a suspect. The man from Uzbekistan confessed that he had been recruited by the Ukrainian secret service SBU and that he had received the explosive device from them. The FSB announced this in Moscow. This information cannot be independently verified.

Media in the Russian capital reported that two suspects had been arrested. The authorities were able to identify their cars through surveillance cameras at the crime scene, the newspapers “Kommersant” and “Izvestia” and the portal “RBK” reported.

Kirillov, head of the Russian troops for protection against nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, was killed by an explosive device in front of his home in Moscow on Tuesday morning. His adjutant also died. Russian investigators spoke of terror and immediately assumed an act by Ukrainian secret services. In Kiev, the SBU let it be known unofficially that the attack was its fault.

According to Russian intelligence, the suspected assassin is said to have placed a small Wi-Fi camera in a car that was parked at Kirillov’s house. This meant that Ukrainian officers could have monitored the general’s movements from a distance. They were also the ones who remotely detonated the bomb hidden in an electric scooter. The attacker was promised $100,000 and travel to the EU for the crime.

Ukraine has allegedly carried out several attacks on propagandists of the Russian war of aggression. However, the killing of a general in the middle of Moscow, which inevitably leaves traces, is unusual. It shows that the Ukrainian services felt confident in their cause. The Russian secret services are therefore under considerable pressure to solve the crime quickly and eliminate the leak.